Well, unless they happen to live in the minority of US states where 18 is the AOC, nothing (at least from the perspective of a voyeuristic government).
Even in those states, most have some variant of what some call the “Romeo & Juliet” clauses, where if both parties are within 2 years of each other, or over 16 then, or other arbitrary distinction.

The stated goal is to penalize some hypothetical fat sweaty 40-something dude from fast-talking a small child into giving him head in return for candy… but in actual practice the law (which purports that a 17 year old has no more right to make her own decisions about her own body than a 7 year old) is used almost exclusively to hurt young people who were minding their own business and not hurting anyone, or as a weapon against the more popular teens in your high school.

Keep in mind, for nearly the entirety of human history, and in every place in the world where they bothered to make a law about it all, the minimum age of marriageability was 12, right up until 100-150 years ago. That number is based on real biology, not some prude’s fantasy world they’d rather be living in. The idea that teenagers don’t have sexual urges, or that it is in any way abnormal or developmentally inappropriate for them to be sexualy active, is an insane delusion… unfortunately that’s one of many delusions that our laws are based in, and so scores of innocent people get hurt.

OK, so Atsali is 18 and today’s her birthday. Does that mean she was born on 6 March 1999? Or is this just Wapsi-time, and there’s no basis between reality and comic time? (Just wondering if the keepers of the character bios need to make an update or if it doesn’t matter.)

There’s a relationship between our time and Wapsi Time, but it’s elastic, nonlinear, and subject to big jumps with no warning. So, we won’t know what Atsali’s actual Wapsiverse birth date is, unless Paul includes it in the strip someday or makes it canon via a Facebook posting or something similar.

That comic mentioned the siren power to control. It didn’t mention anything about the succubus power to sap your energy during sex, as happened that time Atsali grabbed Nadette by the hair and kissed her ears off.

Well, if they are both 18 now i honestly would’t care if they got it on, its their choice and not something any goverment has a say in.
If they were 16 i might be hesitant, but again, its their choice.
and Hinoron, u made a great point that i totally agree with.

I am confused. On Jan 28, 2016She’s Speechless strip Atsali says “I’ll be turning seventeen next month” and then in the comic that came out between Jun 10, 2016 – Not My Fault and
Jun 12, 2016 – Growth Spurt 01 which says “156 weeks later” which is 3 years. After this we see Castella older and Atsali is a senior where she was a Sophomore before. This almost correlates with the “156 weeks later” bit because if she was a Sophomore and 3 years had passed she would have graduated already, but I digress.

Now we have this strip that says its her 18th birthday and I am all confused.

My apologies, not all the comics are linear. It takes so long to tell some of the stories that some of them were written earlier or at the same time as others, but I can only post so many per week/month. I wish I had a better structure to keep things lined up so not to be this confusing.

It’s not a problem, I do understand why it happened…the posted 3 year jump is what threw most of us here. Up till that point, time passing was “elastic” enough to account for the occasional confusion of age. Once a defined amount of time passed after an age reveal, it got a bit jarring. By today’s comics it’s all smoothed out, though